National Zeitung
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| National Zeitung - Deutsche Wochen Zeitung | |
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | DSZ Druckschriften- und Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH |
| Editor | Gerhard Frey |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Political allegiance | Far right |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
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| Website: www.national.zeitung.de/ | |
The National Zeitung - Deutsche Wochen Zeitung (NZ, National Newspaper - German Weekly Newspaper) is a weekly newspaper, published by Gerhard Frey, who also founded the far right Deutsche Volksunion (German People's Union) in 1971.
The DNZ, used as the Deutsche Volksunion's party organ, espouses many of the views held by The Republicans (Germany) (Die Republikaner), but it goes one step further in tacitly supporting violence against asylum seekers and foreign workers. Frey has sought to distance himself from pro-Nazi sentiments while simultaneously insisting that most Germans want to live in a racially pure country.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz--BfV), announced in April 1992 that the DVU was under surveillance to determine if the party met the legal definition of "antidemocratic," a classification that would permit the government to ban it. A similar investigation of The Republicans (Germany) (Die Republikaner) was announced in December 1992. Such surveillance legally can include government infiltration of the party, monitoring of mail and telephone calls, and interrogation of party members. The BfV has classified both parties as "right-wing extremist" and "constitutionally hostile."
[edit] External links
- Official Site (German)
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